General Smartphone Discussion Thread - What phones to recommend and which ones to avoid?

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Made In Lovely Kin said:
What chink phones are considered good? I heard about OnePlus, but I cannot buy Huaweis or Redmis since I believe they are still restricted in the US. May stick with Motorola after mine bites the dust.
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I've had good luck with Blu phones that rebrand Chinese ODM and put a fairly vanilla android version. Best thing is they're cheap, have micro sd slot, and headphone jacks.
 
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I will be chaning my Galaxy A12 with Galaxy A26 i wanted to flash some different os on it but graphene and lineage dont support it so FUCK its too late for refund and i use it only for yt and messaging i guess i can root it or any advice ?
 
Fucking wifi and Bluetooth died on my pixel 8 pro, still got this fucker for a year too. I did consider just buying a OP13 but it's awfully spendy for what is mainly just convenience...
 
I am so fucking tired of this shit bro.

I spent all fucking day trying to get wallet to work and even passing strong integrity doesn't fucking fix it. Just broke one day, out of the blue. I don't even need strong integrity, I just need enough integrity to be able to use fucking wallet.

The only thing that works is PIF Next 2.1..that gives you strong integrity, but apparently that's not good enough for wallet.

google definitely silently pushed an update to break this. Probably works fine on non rooted phones.

I'm really tempted to give up root at this point. I either have to deal with non-root adaway, non-root rvx and have wallet or use root adaway, root rvx and no wallet. Actually, I take that back, I'd lose root PGSharp. Unrooted PGSharp is more likely to get your account banned; I've experienced it first hand: it's true. Both of my alternate accounts got warning strikes for spoofing using the non-root client, meanwhile 0 warnings or strikes on my main account.

I know this is all pretty fucking petty 1st world problem bullshit but it was just so convenient to be able to pay with my phone instead of having to carry my wallet.

edit: Day 2

I've learned some interesting things, Play Integrity Fork is not intended for devices running on android 15 or higher and newer devices like OnePlus 12, so that explains why that wasn't working.

PIF Next 2.1 still works. Apparently I'm suppose to be using Shimanko to dynamically hide root and not have google apps on the deny list; this is likely why wallet was refusing to work: the denylist prevents zygist from injecting in those apps.
 
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Update: Apparently it's impossible to use google wallet on newer rooted device without an unrevoked keybox. Newer devices MUST pass strong integrity with an unrevoked keybox.

This is fucking stupid. There's no way to fix this until trickystore updates with an unrevoked keybox.
 
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My Pixel got updated to Andoid 16, how do I remove that stupid google widget from the bottom of my screen? Google app is disabled. I'm not going to use AI.
Why is address saved in my autocomplete being fed directly into google instead of being resolved into a website I want to visit?
 
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jeff7989 said:
My Pixel got updated to Andoid 16, how do I remove that stupid google widget from the bottom of my screen? Google app is disabled. I'm not going to use AI.
Why is address saved in my autocomplete being fed directly into google instead of being resolved into a website I want to visit?
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This is one of the reasons I chose OP over Pixel. Their "features" are really annoying. Also I don't know if this is an oos thing or an android thing but they love to bug you about apps draining battery in the background and to review app permission. Like nigger, do you think I'm retarded? I set those settings for a fucking reason. It's also why I needed a phone I could root, so I can hopefully mess around with root applications or custom roms that don't have these "features".

A final word about google wallet on root...I'm done. I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas. I'm just going to get a wallet case for my phone.
 
The Repeated Meme said:
I'm just going to get a wallet case for my phone.
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seri0us said:
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I was thinking more along the lines of double sided tape and extra tape to smooth the gaps. It's actually not that bad but I'm hoping the phone case is a more elegant solution. Rubber bands would most certainly interfere with the operation of the phone. Super glue, now that might actually work.

And no I'm not joking, I actually implemented the tape solution before I ordered a wallet case.
 
jeff7989 said:
Did you stick a credit card to your phone or have you managed to go through all hurdles and get the Google Pay working? If the latter then please share since it may be interesting.
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I got the actual app working. New 🐝box leaked but it still wasn't working so I messed around with the settings a bit and got it working.

Latest pif 4.1 inject not fork, not pif next
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Spoof building, preview fingerprint,everything else off.

A physical bypass would always work but it's a last resort.
 
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